An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas
himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary
Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the
plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and
exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and
second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and
'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of
the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with
contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most
important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian
scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find
this book of interest to them.
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